On 4 Nov 2002, Elliot Peele wrote: >What kind of setting are you trying to do this in? (library, loby, etc.) > >My suggestion if you plan to have people use the machines more than once >is to go with a authentication system like kerberos and probably nfs for >home directories depending on the scalability that you need. If its a >library make a user name based on name and use there SS# for a password.
I wouldn't do that. I don't think a SSN is secure enough. Also, if this is done for a public institution, I think you'll need to provide a Privacy Act Statement to people before you can legally get their SSN's. >Setup the file server to be the kerberos server as well as the kickstart >server. You also need something like current or yum to keep all of the >machines up to date. If something like LTSP (mentioned previously in this thread; http://www.ltsp.prg/) is used, then only the server(s) have any stored software. The rest of the lab machines won't even need to store a kernel. -- Jeff Jackowski http://ro.com/~jeffj/ _______________________________________________ TriLUG mailing list http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ: http://www.trilug.org/~lovelace/faq/TriLUG-faq.html
